Christopher Biggins has been one of the most outspoken concerning allegations that the BBC knew but protected Savile in order to keep the golden goose alive:

"The BBC are the real culprits because they covered it up because of the two big [TV] series they had with him and they were very, very out of order. That's absolutely true.
"There were heads of department [at the BBC] who should be held to account and I think it will come out who they were. The other thing was that they didn't want Stoke Mandeville [Hospital] to suffer, but I think they were wrong. Stoke Mandeville wouldn't have suffered."
People were "frightened" to expose Savile, he said. "Nobody could understand why nothing had been done, why the press had such a soft approach to it. He was an iconic character, in as much as raising so much money,